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"Michael Pugliese" <michael098762001 at e...> wrote:
> <URL: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/385/harpal_brar.html >
> http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/352/sharvey.html
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> Michael Pugliese
If you want an assessment of the admiration these two great figures of the British Marxist Leninist trend in British politics you need look no further than Royston's own assessment of Brar in a recent edition of EPSR (1245, 24 August 2004):
Lalkarites concoct the most delinquent degeneration yet in the whole rotten history of hypocritical Stalinist apostasy. Swallowing Scargill's abuse for 8 years, and covering up for his endless demagogic conceit and political ignorance, is pronounced healthy and useful. The duped working class will hardly see it as that as a result of being lied to for 8 years, as is now admitted, over what was the real political value and personal quality of the supposedly "great leader" in the SLP. The illusory worth of "personality" in politics is still the only rut that most of the fake-"left" know, — the Brarites dropping straight back in it. But ignoring polemics will not conceal the return to Stalinist theoretical idiocy.
A bunch of "left" opportunists, honourably booted out of Scargill's SLP guru-worship club for no longer showing enough deference, have dishonourably claimed the formation of a "new" revolutionary party" allegedly "different from all the other claimants to building communist parties in Britain".
It is not "different" at all. It is stuck in exactly the same rut of Revisionist opportunism where all the rival "communist party" Stalinist remnants have festered since the 1960s.
Worse than that, it is the wretched Stalin phenomenon all over again, ludicrously repeated by this group in staying loyally silent at Scargill's rear for 8 years of the SLP while all kinds of reactionary political and personal shite came bucketing out of the "great man".
Now there is a ludicrous "review" of this Brar group's modern history which is only notable for the huge and laughable silences over the long stretches of years, and major world issues, for which Brar has no answer.
The "new" pattern is immediately clear. It is the same old "guru" worship as before, — first era covering up all the questions Stalin could not answer; second period covering up all Scargill's howlers and ignorance; last phase, protecting Harpal Brar himself from his grotesque history of contradictions and evasions. =========================================================== And it goes on to further analyse the situation:
http://www.epsr-marx-lenin.co.uk/No1245_CSS_3.htm
-- Michael Pugliese